My disclaimer - I can generally stay up and be functional from 6AM to 10:30PM. 11PM is pushing it. Even 10:45PM. I never see the Colbert Report - but the Daily Show I can somewhat see and catch and most important be coherent. But those are my hours. I'm more of a morning person, and after a day of being with Lilly Rose, I'm worn out. So Mark's 'on duty' for bedtime and he does a great job with her. He's got bedtime, the swaddling, the burrito song, bathtime and feeding down pat. I'm his assistant. So last night, Mark was out at a function, and Mel and JJ and I put her to sleep (amidst the Mylicon drop overdose scare). And while she went down for 30-40 minutes, she was up, at 10:15. Both JJ and I went up, fed her more, and at 10:30, I came back down while JJ rocked her. I pumped, JJ put her down, and we thought she was asleep. But nope, she was just waiting for her dad and JJ to play with her. So here's JJ, with her account of being up with Lilly Rose.
Lilly decided that she really was not ready for bed but wanted to watch Jay Leno or David Letterman and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. I really think she was just waiting up for her Daddy to get home so she could share some time and smiles with him. She was not ready to go down for the night. I brought her over into the guest room and in my bed so that she and I could watch David Letterman. Letterman was almost over, Mark came home and thought he would put her down for the night. So this was about 11:45 --he gave her another 2 ounces of milk and put her in her crib. It seems that she was still not really tired and really wanted to see Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. So Lilly decided to call for her Daddy to come upstairs again and get her out of her crib. As any good Father would, Mark came up again and picked her up and tried to give her some more milk. She definitely needed to be rewrapped as a burrito baby again since she had wiggled out of her swaddling blanket. Mark brought her into my room so he could swaddle her on the bed. He wrapped Lilly tightly in her blanket (again) and tried to convince her it really would be a good thing to get some sleep for the night. She still did not seem tired, where as Mark was quite tired since he had been up since 6:30 am and had been at work and a reception for some Judges until 11:00 pm. By this time it was 1:00 a.m. and Lilly was going strong but still being a very sweet girl. Mark put her down in her crib (again), went back down the stairs and got back in bed. Lilly started fussing again but I got her and rocked her for a while. She finally settled down and went to sleep about 1:20 a.m. I hope she enjoyed the late night shows and I also hope for Jen and Mark that this is the first and last time she decides that she wants to have Late Night with Lilly Rose.
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